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The Chronicle Monday, February 22 THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1988 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 83. NO. 105 Bryans donate gift to cancer labs From staff reports The facility will consist of four labs: a The Kathleen Price and Joseph M. .Laboratory of Cancer Computing and Mo­ Bryan Family Foundation has announced lecular Graphics, Laboratory of Molecular a $50,000 gift toward creation of the Structure, Molecular Shared Resource Greensboro Laboratories at the Duke Laboratory and Laboratories of Cell Comprehensive Cancer Center, according Growth, Regulation and Oncogenesis. The to the Duke University News Service. campaign to fund the Greensboro "It is well known that the hardest thing Laboratories has a goal of $1.7 million, to get on a grant is capital equipment," the release said. said Dr. William Anlyan, executive vice The Greensboro-based Foundation was president and chancellor for health af­ established in 1935 and contributes prin­ fairs. "Having the Greensboro group un­ cipally to North Carolina institutions con­ dertake creation of the labs is immensely cerned with human service, education, important to the center's research." health, and the arts and cultural affairs. Survey reveals strong support for allowing part-time students ROCKY ROSEN/THE CHRONICLE Investigators rake Brier Creek reservoir, where they believe the plane first hit. By ERIC MARTIN mores and senoirs, and 96 percent of the A recent poll on the issue of part-time juniors assenting. student status and housing showed that .Less of a consensus appeared on the is­ an overwhelming number of students ap­ sue of part-time housing, with 66 percent Investigators probe RDU crash prove of part-time status as an option, but of those polled wanting campus housing are split over whether part-time students for part-time students. Fifty percent of By MEG REYNOLDS multi-engine and single-engine planes. should be granted campus housing. freshmen, 58 percent of sophomores, 76 Associated PTess Ms. Digan was hired by American However, the survey was "not com­ percent of juniors and 73 percent of se­ MORRISVILLE — Investigators in Eagle on May 5,1987 and qualified July 4 pletely scientific," said Stephanie niors opted for part-time student housing. motorboats raked the bottom of a shallow under FaAA regulations to fly the Metro- Schnuck, director of the Student Con­ The survey comes as the University's pond at Raleigh-Durham Airport Sunday, Ill. cerns Center, the organization that con­ Part-Time Student Task Force prepares hoping to find clues to a commuter plane "She was qualified," Kolstad said. ducted the poll. "I only hit West Campus. to decide Tuesday on a proposal regarding crash that claimed 12 lives. "There is no doubt about that." For the time I had, it was the best I could part-time students to present to the ad­ .Later in the day, investigators said they Weather conditions at the time of the do," she said. ministration. The task force has been believed the first officer, Kathy Digan, accident, although poor, were not so se­ Of the 311 students responding to over working since their formation to develop a was flying the plane when it crashed vere as to endanger the flight. Visibility 500 questionnaires distributed non-ran- proposal. Discussion has been postponed Friday. on the runway was between 2,400 and domly, 60 were freshmen, 78 sophomores, twice, however, as the task force has James Kolstad, a member of NTSB, 3,000 feet when the crash occurred. The 95 juniors and 78 seniors. On the question hoped to be able to take ASDU legislation said Sunday night that investigators flight could have taken off down to 1,600 of allowing part-time status, 95 percent of on the subject into account. Schnuck said thought Digan, 28, had been flying the feet, Kolstad said. the students approved of it, with 85 per­ she believes that the poll may enable plane because the captain, Walter Cole, Kolstad also said the plane had hit the cent of the freshmen, 97 percent of sopho­ See POLL on page 3 • was talking to the control tower when the water at Brier Creek reservoir before it plane took off. had hit land. "The person that does the flying doesn't Parts of the plane were found within 40 usually do the radio," Kolstad said. feet of the bank, he said. The parts in­ Ms. Digan had 2,150 total flying hours cluded a portion of the hydraulic system. and 450 in the Metro-Ill, the craft type in­ No one survived the crash of American volved in the crash. Her flight time was Eagle Flight 3378, which went down not all accumulated with American Eagle, shortly after takeoff. The Richmond Va.- and she had experience with a number of bound, twin-engine turboprop skimmed the pond, a flood reservoir, before plung­ ing into a wooded area and exploding into pieces, officials said. American plane "We still don't know anything," Ted Lopatkiewicz, a spokesman for the Na­ tional Transportation Safety Board, said emptied due to at the crash site Sunday. "This (the pond search) shows how (the plane) broke up. It helps determine the sequence of events." menacing note About 25 investigators, including some from the NTSB, sifted through the roped- MORRISVILLE (AP) — A threat­ off wreckage site on the pond's bank Sun­ ening note scribbled "in a child's day, peering at small bits of debris and handwriting" forced the evacuation of examining larger plane parts for signs of an -American Airlines passenger jet at malfunction. Raleigh-Durham Airport Sunday, an Beyond them, men in lifejackets piloted official said. two motorboats around the surface of the The incident came two days after an pond, using poles and hooks to retrieve LAURA ZUCKER/THE CHRONICLE American Eagle commuter plane small pieces of crash debris from the res­ At the hop crashed just outside the airport, killing ervoir bottom. The pond measured about While Johann Strauss himself didn't show up Saturday night for the annual all 12 people aboard. American Eagle 4 feet deep and 75 yards wide, officials Viennese Ball, others waltzed the night away without him. is operated by AVAir under a contract said. with American Airlines. Lopatkiewicz said the debris would The note was discovered about 10:30 have to be used to determine the state a.m. Sunday as passengers traveling and angle of the plane when it struck the Inside Weather on a Boston-to-Miami flight were bank, as the aircraft carried no flight data changing planes at RDU, said Teresa or cockpit voice recorders. Neither is cur­ Bad goes for the gold: Monday, Cold Busted: Sunny and warm Damiano, a spokeswoman for the air­ rently required by the Federal Aviation port. Monday examines the possibilities of today, with highs in the lower 50s. Un­ Administration on commuter aircraft, al­ Dick Button-bashing, bus driving, and less you are driving on Campus Dr. Passengers were forced to change though they will be as of March 1989, he sorority formalizing becoming Olympic where the high is 25; m.p.h., that is. planes because of mechanical troubles said. sports. See page 5 over a breakfast of Any higher and you'll be feeling some on the first aircraft, Damiano said. She "If it was flying upside-down, that tells raw potatoes and borscht. serious heat from Durham's finest. did not know the nature of the trouble. you something," he said. THE GHRONICJ^E MONDAY, FEBRUAHT22, 1988 World & National Newsfile Shultz visit focuses on human rights N.Y. Times Mews Service By DAVID SHIPLER American official said. If this is translated into practice, N.Y. Times News Service Rent boycott effective: A rent boycott in it would open emigration to more Soviet citizens. MOSCOW — Secretary of State George Shultz made Shultz had a first-hand encounter with Soviet citizens Soweto is the one area of black resistance that the human rights a major theme of his first day of talks in who have been denied permission to emigrate on a vari­ South African government has been unable to break Moscow Sunday, meeting with leading rights campaig­ ety of grounds, despite having children or spouses living under its nationwide state of emergency. Officials say ners, including .Andrei Sakharov, and devoting most of unpaid rent arid service charges exceed $100 million. abroad. his morning discussions with Foreign Minister Eduard Attending a reception for about 50 Soviet citizens at Shevardnadze to the topic. the apartment of an American Embassy official, Shultz Allegheny files for bankruptcy: Allegheny In­ The two men had "a wide and broad exchange," ac­ shook hands, expressed solace and concern and then told ternational filed for bankruptcy protection, a move cording to an American official, which reportedly the gathering that he wanted "to be sure you understand that was not a major surprise. The company, which produced a Soviet assurance that an important emigra­ how strongly the United States, the president, every predicts no disruption of its business, makes Oster tion restriction would be waived in 1988. member of our Senate and House of Representatives, the blenders, Sunbeam appliances and Northern Electric The Soviet delegation told the .Americans that a American people generally, feel that human rights, hu­ blankets. provision in the law that bars emigration by anyone who manitarian issues, are the essence of our society." does not have a member of his immediate family living "So we reach out to you," he said. "No matter how dis­ Palestinians ask to meet Shultz: A group of abroad would be suspended, and that more distant rela­ couraging it may sometimes seem, we will never give up.
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